Michigan Today . . . Fall 2000


Catching a falling star
The future is now when it comes to Alec Gallimore's rocket engines.

GM, 20 other firms back U-M in admissions lawsuits
Briefs filed in support of the University.

Honorary degree for Václav Havel
Czech President speaks of truth.

History is only as good as the materials used to build it
A seminar on 'social memory.'

Potent antibiotic prospect is found by Pharmacy team
Life Sciences news.

'Can't imagine a better place to hang around'
Publi Policy School named after President Gerald R. Ford.

Best fund-raising year ever
$230.6 million in gifts.

Drawing prisoners out
Undergrads, faculty and alums take art behand the walls.

LSA's Shirley Neuman
A post-modern dean grew up on a pre-modern prairie.

Pioneering researchers to lead new Life Sciences Institute
Another step forward in the University's Life Sciences Initiative.

The Victors are valiant in clubs and intramurals, too
New sports program awards diligent amateurs.

CAAS at 30
Born of protest, the U-M's Black Studies program has come of age.

'Too garrulous' for engineering
Prof. James Jackson leads CAAS.

'Something always bubbles up'
An interview with Natalie Zemon Davis '59 PhD.

'It did happen here'
New York Times's Anthony Lewis keynotes Freedom Lecture symposium.

Making it all the way
From nontraditional student status to the PhD to U-M faculty.


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